Kemi Badenoch, head of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, has disclosed that her Nigerian citizenship cannot be passed on to her children, solely because of her gender.

Speaking during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Badenoch reflected on the differences between immigration laws in the UK and countries like Nigeria.

She used her personal situation as an example to highlight what she described as inequalities in global immigration policies. According to Badenoch, many Nigerians take advantage of the UK’s more lenient immigration system, contrasting it with the stricter, gender-based limitations in Nigerian law.

Kemi Badenoch said: “I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents, I can’t give it to my children because I’m a woman.

“Yet loads of Nigerians come to the UK and stay for a relatively free period of time, acquire British citizenship. We need to stop being naive.

“That is why under my leadership, we now have policies to make it harder to just get British citizenship. It has been too easy.”

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